ZIP code profile · 2024 county data

ZIP Code 29691

Oconee County, South Carolina: Census demographics for this ZIP plus the containing county's FBI UCR crime rate.

Data updated 2026-08-24

1,315
Property rate /100K (county)
12,337
Population (ZIP)
220
Violent rate /100K (county)

Is ZIP code 29691 safe? Honest data snapshot

ZIP code 29691 sits within Oconee County, SC, a county whose reported crime runs below the national average (see the county-level FBI figures below, not a ZIP-specific calculation).

Oconee County's reported crime sits somewhat below the national average: 220 violent and 1,315 property incidents per 100,000 residents in 2024.

ZIP 29691 carries a Census-reported population of 12,337, ranking #3 of 11 ZIPs in Oconee County, spread across 62.2 square miles (about 198 people per square mile). For a full breakdown of Oconee County's crime categories and year-over-year trend, see the Oconee County crime page linked below.

ZIP 29691 has no FBI-native crime rate (postal codes are not police jurisdictions). The property-led county proxy above is from Oconee County agency submissions; see methodology for the ZCTA plurality map. Methodology.

ZIP 29691 Census context

These are ZIP/ZCTA demographic estimates, separate from the county-level FBI proxy above. They describe the local settlement, not a crime rate.

Median household income
$50,854
Median age
44.4 years
Owner-occupied homes
75%
Occupied homes
4,720

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 2022 5-year ZCTA estimates (income, age, and occupied housing tenure).

How useful is the county proxy for ZIP 29691?

Within the participating-agency records for Oconee County, reported violent and property crime rates both sit below their U.S. benchmarks: violent crime is 38% below and property crime is 23% below. The two submitted measures point in the same direction, but they do not establish complete county coverage or turn the result into a ZIP-level rating for 29691. Both comparisons use the same 2024 county reporting population and FBI-submitted counts, so the two directions are internally comparable for this release, not evidence about a different year.

29691 is comparatively spread out at about 198 people per square mile. That settlement pattern may differ sharply from the county's population centers, another reason to use the county rates as regional context rather than a local estimate.

Oconee County UCR book ZIP 29691 inherits

ZIP 29691 itself is about 198 people per Census sq mi across 62.2 sq mi (12,337 residents), a postal settlement fact independent of the county UCR proxy.

ZIP 29691's 12,337 residents are about 15.7% of the 2024 county reporting population (78,607), a large postal share of a county-wide rate.

Oconee County's 2024 UCR book concentrates in larceny-theft (65% of 1,207 offenses; mix index 4,528). ZIP 29691 inherits that county mix, not a postal-native split.

Oconee County 2024 vs 2023: violent counts -3% vs 2023; property counts -12% vs 2023. Year-over-year moves are county agency submissions, still not ZIP-native.

Oconee County offense mix (2024)

Mix index is HHI × 10,000 on county offense-type shares. Distinct from the per-100K rates in the hero; still county-agency data, not a ZIP-native FBI table.

Nationwide peers for ZIP 29691

Similar county violent rate (~220/100K)

Similar Census population (~12,337)

County detail: Oconee County · State atlas: South Carolina

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau (ZIP population, land area, 2020 ZCTA-to-county relationship file, ACS 5-year estimates) and FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program, Crime in the United States (CIUS) Table 10 (county-level crime, attributed via ZIP-to-county crosswalk).

Verify with Census.gov Geography and FBI.gov UCR.

Read our methodology , how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Every figure on PlainCrime is rendered directly from FBI Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page combines Census ZIP-level figures with a ZIP-to-county crosswalk to attribute FBI UCR crime data honestly, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.